Study Guide


# Question
1 When was the Jet Engine developed in Britain?
2 What was the first mammal to be cloned?
3 What was the name of the first mammal to be cloned?
4 When did Margaret Thatcher become a cabinet minister as the Secretary of state for education and science?
5 How many people lost their lives in the violence of Nothern Ireland?
6 Some 1,000 people lost their lives in the decades after 1969 in the violence of Northern Ireland.
7 In 1996, Two british scientists were the first to clone a mammal successfully
8 When did no political party win an overall majority in the General Election?
9 What kind of government was formed after the General Election of 2010?
10 When did the British combats leave Iraq?
11 In 2007, who took over as Prime Minister from Tony Blair?
12 In which year was Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, elected to join the parliament of UK?
13 What position did Richard Austen Butler hold in 1923?
14 What did the Butler Education Act introduce in 1944?
15 Who is the author of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and 'George's Marvellous Medicine'?
16 The decade of 1960s was known as the
17 Who led the establishment of the National Health System (NHS) in 1948?
18 Dylan Thomas was a famous poet and writer from which country?
19 Which of the following is a British invention of the 20th century?
20 Which of the following American President Margaret Thatcher worked closely with ?
21 Which of the following is not a British invention?
22 In 1997 which political party was elected which was led by Tony Blair?
23 When did the 'Concorde' aircraft go out of service?
24 What British discovery influenced the evolution of computer science and the modern computer?
25 Which of the following are the 20th century British inventions?
26 Who invented the jet engine in 1930s?
27 Who was the first woman to be elected as a Prime Minister of the UK?
28 In Which sectors Britain saw a growth in the period of ‘swinging sixties’
29 In 1948, Aneurin (Nye) Bevan established the
30 Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the
31 From 1979 to 1990, which British Prime Minister led the Conservative government?
32 With which country did Britain develop the world's ONLY supersonic commercial airline?
33 Colonies like the Pacific, the Caribbean, and Africa achieved independence in how many years after India got independence in 1947?
34 What did Sir Christopher Cockrell (1910-99), a British inventor invent in 1950s?
35 In 1982, who invaded the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic?
36 Which of the following developments are associated with the ‘Swinging Sixties’?
37 Which of the following welfare were introduced between 1945 and 1950?
38 Sir Robert Watson-Watt, a Scotsman, invented radar.
39 When did Argentina invade the Falklands prompting UK to send its naval force in defense?
40 When did Britain and France develop the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner?
41 When was the first television broadcast made between London and Glasgow?
42 What important law was passed by the Parliament regarding women?
43 Which of the following discovery was made by the Scottish physician and researcher John Macleod (1876-1935)?
44 The two well-known pop music band's called the Beatles and the Rolling Stones occurred during which period?
45 Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of the DNA molecule?
46 Who invented the turning machine?
47 When did Alan Turning invented the Turing machine?
48 What was the Harrier jump jet capable of doing?